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Innovating Educationthrough
International ICT-Collaboration
Successful practice from the history of ESPto meet future educational challenges
The 25th Anniversary Conference of theEuropean Schools Project Association
Helsingør – Denmark
Henk Sligte – NederlandUniversity of Amsterdam
Kohnstamm Institute for Educational Research Board of the ESP Association
The Skinny Bridge Amsterdam 1840 AD
PLUS
MANY
MORE
LANGUAGES
to Helsingør
WHO IS WHO
DENMARKFINLAND
NETHERLANDS
GERMANY
GEORGIAITALY
UNITED KINGDOM
BELGIUM
POLAND
NORWAY
SWEDEN
ESTONIA
ROMANIA
Greetings from RomaniaDear Henk With a part of my soul I will be in Denmark. Please send my best regards to all the ESP friends. Wish you one of the best conferences ever had and an enchanting spring to everyone! I am looking forward to hearing the Conferece news next week. My best wishes and all my kisses to ESP!! See you soon, Claudia
Innovating EducationthroughInternational ICT-Collaboration
Schools as Vital Learning Centres having meaningful and sustainableinternational Connections with other schools and with the World • as Information Society (resources) and • as Global Village (communication & collaboration)
From 1900: ‘In the year 2000’
2011: the connected school
You in classroom
• Remember your first time?• What you did then?• What you do now?• What you want to do?• What chances?• What obstacles?• What would your ‘ideal’ teaching and
school be?• Dreams?
How time flies....
• Your first PC• Your first e-mail• Your first surf on the Web• Your first digital photo• Your first mobile phone, first SMS• When you used it for the first time, and
when in your education?• Is it all not longer ago than 15 (10) years?• What about 2020? Will we learn & teach
differently? Will schools be the same?
Innovating Education throughInternational ICT-Collaboration
FACTORS THAT SHOULD BE IN BALANCE WITH EACH OTHER
Successful practice from the history of ESP
to meet future educational challenges
ESP-Conferences
1. London2. Amsterdam3. Groburgwedel4. Humlebaek5. Lenham6. Toledo7. Schwerte8. Amsterdam
9. Cambridge10. Leuven 11. Portoroz12.
Copenhagen
13. Tartu14.
Haugesund15. Rendsburg16. Malmö
17. Roma18. Prague19. Järvenpää20. Amsterdam21. Piešt’any22. A Coruña23. Tartu24. London
25. Helsingør
Working conferences for and by Educators Creating Innovative Collaborative projects with ICT Improving & extending community of learners
Amsterdam - Telegraph Creek
GeographyEnglish Language
1987
6 teachers80 pupils
One of the first experiments in the worldPre-Internet
Two schools
TELETRIP Conversation Theory
Fidonet, EARN, JANET, BITNET
From Peter Hyde at Tahltan School in Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, Canada6 years ago we didnt even have telephones here and we had to rely on short wave radio, so to be able to send messages in this manner is a big change for us. We only get mail trucked in here once a week, so electronic mail is certainly faster than the regualr mail!!The first concept which is very difficult for Europeans to understand about northern B.C. is distance. Our nearest neighbour is a village, 120 km from here. Our population in this village is 350, and our neighbour, Dease Lake, has a population of 400. It is a 770 km drive to our nearest town, called Terrace. It has a population of only 16,000. Along the drive to Terrace you only pass through 3 villages, non with more than 500 people living in them. This is so different from Europe! Imagine driving 770 km from Amsterdam and only passing through three little villages!
the first ‘electronic fieldtrip’ with this first ‘letter’ from Donna.
Hi! My name is Donna. I am 17 and in Grade 9.Pretty bad eh?! There are no guys or girls my age in this school. As a matter of fact there are only 50 students in this school form age 5 to my age. Just like some of you guys, "I don’t like some of the teachers in this school", but I do like my Teacher, David.One thing I don’t like about school is that it starts at 8:45 in the morning.My birthday is in January, and I have one brother and a sister who has a son and new baby girl. My mom is in my home town, so my boy friend (21) lives with me at my place. In the future I would like to graduate, then get married and have children, all within the next 3 or 4 years.There is not much excitement around this little village, so there is a lot of drinking (I don’t drink any more), so it's nice to have a motorbike or something to keep you amused.Bye, Donna.P.S. Write soon!!! This is neat!!! Like really Rad!
The first European Triangle
AmsterdamGroßburgwedel
Lenham
EcologyPoetry
1988
First lessons
• When one school uses the mother tongue, and other schools use a foreign language, there is an imbalance. Better is it to use a mutual foreign language: learning effects at all sites.
• Good appointments for frequency of messages
• Balance in ages, in prior knowledge• Interaction: not only sending messagesthinkwriteread againsend|||||readreactpose questionssend• Netiquette: Golden Rules
Started in Groburgwedel 1989by Lone Hagen & Thomas PetersCONTENT
30 TEACHERS FROM UK50 TEACHERS FROM SIX OTHER COUNTRIES55 PROJECTS PLANNED; 32 DONE19 IN GERMAN; 9 IN ENGLISH
Show your portrait
Humour: different
or?
Holidays
Das Bild der Anderen
Literature Everyday Statistics
School-newspaper
Remembering
A teenager in [a town]
Traditions Everyday life
School and Spare time
International Calendar
School and Home life
Chemistry
Astronomy Aquadata
TeleprojectsInternational (CSC)Learning
Making meaningful connections between:• Pupils,Teachers, Schools, CulturesPut clear subjects central• Make sure pupils can have interesting conversations
on the subjectsUsing languages:• Mutual foreign languageUsing different forms and tools of ICT and Media:• Asynchronous (e-mail etc)• Synchronous (chat, videoconferencing etc)• Integrated in environments (eJournals, Moodle etc)Meaningful= for learning + for teaching + for schools
Glimpses from the 9th ESP Conference in Cambridge, England, 1995
2001 - 2004 COMENIUS3
eJournalism
The ESP Association Founded in 2005
to sustain Comenius 3 networks plus ESP
The association aims at the improvement, and the promotion of (ICT-based) innovation of education in Europe and beyond. It attempts to achieve its aims, by:• promoting collaboration and cooperation between pupils, students, educators and researchers,• availing access to international networks, • promoting and supporting professional development of teachers and educators,• developing innovative concepts, instruments and content,• performing research,• and in addition by (helping) generating all ideas to make and keep our schools good places for children and adults to be in, for continuously educating responsive and responsible participants in future society.
1987 1997 20112001 2004
European Schools Project
ECOLE
COMP@CT
ESPAssociation2005
ESP as Umbrella OrganisationFor many many collaborative projects For many many initiativesConnecting networksConnecting countries, schools, teachers, pupilsLearning of human beings in all their diversity with technology as medium
ESP needs active members!!
• A learning Community of Practitioners in Education
• ESP is open to all kinds of bottom-up initiatives around ICT-innovation of education
• Help improve and extend websites• Develop new and enhance existing content• Collect new applications of ICT and help
spread the news• Find and motivate new teachers to join• Become famous • Talk to the Board!!!
What works in schools?School-Level Factors:• A Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum• Challenging Goals and Effective Feedback• Parent and Community Involvement• Safe and Orderly Environment• Collegiality and ProfessionalismTeacher-Level Factors:• Instructional strategies• Classroom management• Classroom curriculum designStudent-Level Factors:• Home Environment• Learned Intelligence and Background Knowledge• Student Motivation
Robert Marzano based on 35 years of educational research
Factors at pupil-level
• Schools cannot do everything…• 20% of difference in pupil achievements
can be explained by school factors• 80% by background factors of pupils:
– Home environment– Learned Intelligence and Background
Knowledge– Student Motivation
• But schools can help in these…• And ESP as well>>>
What can the school do for these ?
• Home situation: – Create and maintain connections between
school and home, especially by giving information and courses on how to create a supportive environment for learning at home
• Intelligence & Background knowledge: 1. Deepen the experience base: excursions,
collaboration with organisations outside of school, support in creating life experiences
2. Pay always attention to language(s) also in non-language lessons
What can the school do for these ?
• Motivation: – Be positive; focus on achievements, not on
failures– Create activities and assignments that are
intrinsically attractive: • trigger curiosity, fantasy and inspiration (the
Flow);• projects that foster collaboration, posing
critical questions, group work– Teach pupils what motivation is, how it works
and how it influences them: they get more grip on how their processes of thinking and acting work
Factors at (individual) teacher-level
• Pedagogical approach and instructional strategies– Knowing what is effective; guard and monitor
what and how pupils learn in CSCL-projects • Classroom management
– Good relation between teacher-pupil; pupil-pupils– Also in international project work
• (Re)design of the programme (curriculum)– Not only rigid methods: keep on looking what
works for your pupils– Also in using ESP-materials: keep on adjusting to
your and your pupils’ needs and wants
School-Level Factors
• A Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum– Enriched by ESP-work
• Challenging Goals and Effective Feedback– Use this in international CSCL
• Parent and Community Involvement– Connect the school to the outside
• Safe and Orderly Environment• Collegiality and Professionalism
– Learn from and with the Other– No closed classrooms
• Is the system ‘wrong’?
SOS of the SOS
Save Our Schools of the Sick Organisation Syndrome
• Insulitis: the island disease (time, content, closed classrooms)
• Technophobia: the fear for technologyESP = Building Bridges with ICTBridges for Learning Bridging Best PracticesBridging Visions for LearningBridging Intercultural Diversity through Global
Learning
We still do not know everything…
• Factors that influence learning (outcomes) when doing international CSCL-projects??
• Research into learning & cognition• 3D-games lead to more lucid dreams: you
dream 3D, you remember better, you can actually choose how to act, and the direction in which you go in your dream
• Culture of MSN, Hyves, Facebook: other social learning, other cultures? For adults, parents and teachers: other ununderstandable behaviour of young people? Digital natives?
Brain maturation not at the same time
• Early development is not sign of giftedness• In secondary education: brain still very much in
development• Especially metacognitive skills limited• Connection between intelligence and maturation
of the frontal cortex• The more intelligent the pupil, the later the
maturation• Possibly: at 14 behind; at 18 ahead• Room in schools for individual attunement to
biological factors
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at
Cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a
wrod are
SMS
My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we usd 2go2 NY 2c my bro,
his GF & thr 3 kids. ILNY, it’s a gr8 plc
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS
Count the White Passes in silence!
The Mind Once Expanded to
the Dimensions of Larger Ideas Never returns to its Original Size
Innovating Education throughInternational ICT-Collaboration
CSCL-projects as innovative practice• Internet-based interactions & collaborations between
teachers and pupils around ‘conversation’ topics relevant for learning and teaching of all participants in the project.
• The topics and projects demand active & authentic learning (often in ‘the world’ outside of school)
• They demand real collaboration between teachers• Always (mutual) foreign languages involved: different
literacies• Always (inter-) cultural aspects connected: bridging
cultures• Learning + Better understanding• KISS + The Sky is the limit
The conference: a rich environment• For people to meet, to talk, to drink, to eat, to
sing, to dance….• And to discuss about the ways in which we can
make our schools better places to be in for our children and for ourselves as teachers, with open (digital) doors and open (digital) windows, better places to learn for the future, together with other teachers and other pupils in ICT-rich educational environments
• And build bridges between people and cultures in all their diversity
• And appreciate the collective culture we are in now!!!
Let’s enjoy the conference
• Let’s hope that this conference is a shared learning place for us all:
• That we learn from the best practices of each other,
• That we learn of the different cultures and countries we learn, work and live in,
• That we learn how similar we are in fact, despite all differences.
• And that we meet old friends and make new friends.
Enjoy yourselves!Thank you